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AI Agent Fundamentals and Alibaba Cloud Services

  • Understanding what AI agents are and how they differ from standard chat applications.
  • Exploring common enterprise use cases such as support, knowledge assistance, and task automation.
  • Examining core agent components: models, prompts, tools, memory, and workflows.
  • Reviewing relevant Alibaba Cloud services for building and hosting agents.

Environment Setup and First Model Interaction

  • Preparing the Alibaba Cloud account, workspace, and access credentials.
  • Reviewing the console, APIs, and basic development setup.
  • Accessing foundation models through Model Studio or related services.
  • Making a first model call and validating the response flow.

Building a Simple Agent Workflow

  • Defining the agent's role, task boundaries, and expected outputs.
  • Writing clear prompts and instructions for reliable behavior.
  • Managing user input, response formatting, and basic conversation flow.
  • Testing and refining the agent with practical examples.

Adding Enterprise Knowledge with Retrieval

  • Understanding retrieval-augmented generation in practical terms.
  • Preparing business documents and content for knowledge grounding.
  • Connecting the agent to a knowledge source for question answering.
  • Evaluating whether answers are accurate, relevant, and traceable.

Tool Use, Deployment, and Operations

  • Enabling the agent to call external tools, APIs, or lightweight cloud functions.
  • Building simple business workflows such as lookup, summarization, or ticket assistance.
  • Deploying the agent for internal use with appropriate access control.
  • Monitoring logs, usage, quality, and cost with practical operational safeguards.

Wrap-Up and Implementation Planning

  • Reviewing the end-to-end agent architecture and workflow.
  • Identifying suitable business scenarios for pilot projects.
  • Planning next steps for improvement, governance, and team adoption.

Requirements

  • Basic understanding of cloud computing concepts and web APIs
  • Experience using a cloud console and command-line tools
  • Basic Python programming experience

Audience

  • Developers aiming to build AI-powered applications on Alibaba Cloud
  • Cloud engineers and solution architects exploring AI agent use cases
  • Technical teams responsible for prototyping or deploying intelligent assistants
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